The province this morning is reporting 593 new COVID-19 cases with five deaths. A total of 447 cases were in people not fully vaxxed.
Southwestern Public Health is reporting 10 new cases with none resolved.
The death toll remains at 85 since the pandemic began.
There are 60 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 19 in Woodstock, nine in St. Thomas, eight in Aylmer and SW Oxford, five in Tillsonburg, four in Ingersoll, three in West Elgin, two in Bayham and a single case in Blandford-Blenheim and East Zorra-Tavistock.
A total of 1,081 cases have been variants of concern with 257 confirmed cases of the Delta variant.
There are no active institutional cases.
There are four hospitalizations at this time, with one in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 34.7 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Forty-eight of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with 17 of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 4,029.
A total of 142,098 residents in the region have been fully immunized or 66.7 per cent.
There are 28.4 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 35.5 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 23.1 cases per 100,000 population and 106.8 cases per 100,000 population for Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 144 tests Monday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 25 on Monday.
